红旗牌轿车：中国人的骄傲
编辑点评：红旗牌轿车在中国是个家喻户晓的名字。“红旗”二字已经远远超出了一个轿车品牌的含义，新中国发生的太多历史事件都与“红旗”有关。
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红旗牌轿车在中国是个家喻户晓的名字。“红旗”二字已经远远超出了一个轿车品牌的含义，新中国发生的太多历史事件都与“红旗”有关。在国人心里，它有其他品牌所不能代替的位置。
红旗牌轿车的历史始于1958年。当年诞生于一汽的我国第一辆国产小轿车并不叫“红旗”，叫“东风”，定牌为ca71。
从60年代开始，红旗车的各项技术日臻完善，被规定为副部长以上首长专车和外事礼宾车，坐红旗车曾与'见毛主席'、'住钓鱼台'一道，被视为中国政府给予外国来访者的最高礼遇。
They don't make him like they used to in China and perhaps that is a good thing. Lu Wenyou collects these old Chinese classics called Red Flags production rent from 1958 to 1971.
"The quality was in line with the rest of the world," he says, "sound function used the most advanced technology. It was quality over quantity, in 21 years just over thousand were ever made. This is the five flag, Red Flag." he said, "It was built by hand."
For this ultra long limo was made for Chairman Mao, but he died before it was finished.
These cars were built for a different time when only elite leaders had the privilege of riding in a convertible like this one, where they could stand in the back and wave to the adoring masses as they sped by.
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These days the masses have hit the road. Last month the Chinese bought more than a million new cars, many are first time buyers like this farmer from Inner Mongolia spending 7000 us dollars cash for an old Chinese made minivan.
"We saved for two or three years," he says," We built a house, bought a plant seize, then decided to buy a car." He is heading out to some of the most dangerous roads in the world where on average 200 people died in accidents each day.
Terrified for new drivers like Lu Chao. "At the beginning I didn't dare to go out by myself," she says, "because so, so many other cars on the road."
Even though she passed her driver's test last year, this is only the second time that Lu has been on the open road and so it's all a little bit nerve-racking and Lu seems uneasy as well. So she's hired a driving coach to guide her.
It's all a change from a land of bicycles a generation ago for Mao to now China has for the moment become the world's biggest car market and that comes with the biggest number of new inexperienced drivers as well.
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